OUR RAILWAYS.
The railway returns show that there has been • an increase in the number of passengers travelling from the Ist of April to the 9th ot December of 101,239 as compared with the same period last year. The increase was mainly in the secondclass, the total increase in first-class being 5263. There was an increase in the number of parcels and of cattle, and in the quantity of chaff and timber carried, but decreases in the number of horses, carriages, dogs, sheep, pigs, and of the quantity of wool, firewood, grain, merchandise, and minerals. The cost of opened lines to the 31st of March last was £14,733,120, and the cost ofc unopened lines £1.033,412.
The average revenue and expenditure per mile of railway for a twelve-monthly period up to 9th December was as follows :—: —
North Island. Miles. Revenue. Kawakawa... 8 £323 4 7 Whangarei... 7 472 9 (5 Kaihu ... 17 105 5 1 Auckland ... 288 421 8 7 Napier -Taranaki ... 332 669 0 1 Wellington... 92 833 12 2 Expenditure. £301 0 3 345 12 7 95 8 9 294 18 5 383 13 7 572 13 5 South Island. EuruuuiBluff ... 1101 574 19 3 Greymouth... 8 2817 111 Westport ... 27 1512 12 5 Nelson ... 23 395 10 0 Picton ... 21 291 15 8 368 17 7 1530 12 8 846 19 10 432 16 7 330 19 ft
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Otago Witness, Issue 2083, 25 January 1894, Page 35
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230OUR RAILWAYS. Otago Witness, Issue 2083, 25 January 1894, Page 35
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